review | Clothes on Film

Recently we were fortunate enough to get our hands on Amber Jane Butchart’s new book, her ‘Fashion Miscellany’, which has just been published by The IIex Press. If you don’t already know, Amber is a contributor to Clothes on Film and will soon be teaming up with editor Christopher Laverty for an evening of Jazz Era discussion at the British Library. Her book, by the way, is flippin’ brilliant. If you care even slightly about what we wear and why, AJBFM is an indispensable purchase. The layout of it is simple enough. It’s basically designed as a dip-in-and-out for research, or whenever you fancy a flick though. We’d call this…

Not the only book you should buy about costume design, but probably the best.

Gripping entertainment with subtext on everything from ethnicity to hierarchal costume.

Beautiful and affecting, even if it does collapse under the weight of its own earnestness at times.

Jack Sparrow has finally become the irritating wiseass who just won’t leave the party.

A ferocious work from a filmmaker at the height of his game, Black Swan is an incredibly satisfying piece of cinema.